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Died. Frank Wilson Braden. 76. cigar-puffing circus press agent, a walking, talking thesaurus of big-top ballyhoo to whom clowns were not clowns but rather "red-nosed, chalk-faced worshipers of the bluebird of happiness." who variously trumpeted the thrills of the Gentry. Sells-Floto, Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey, and Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circuses for half a century; of pneumonia; in Providence...
...With me, everybody is a double act." cigar-chomping Comedian George Burns, 66, once said, and after 36 years as straight man to Gracie Allen's scatterbrained whimsy in the durable double act of Burns & Allen, it was hard for him to imagine being on his own. That was just where he found himself four years ago, when Wife Gracie, 56, decided to retire...
There is a ceiling on these area service lines. They are completely regulated by the Government." Casting about for another aviation investment, Maytag learned that cigar-chewing George Baker wanted to ease up and was ready to sell out his controlling interest in National. Together with his father and Brother David, Bud Maytag agreed to pay $6,400,000 for 250,000 of Baker's National shares-roughly 14% of the airline's stock...
...Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
...Force is represented by a cigar-chomping general who chews out his missilemen every hour on the hour ("I want no scrubs, no bugs, no red lights and no excuses!") and LeMay or LeMay not be recognizable. The astronauts are represented by a group of clean-cut, squarejawed, blue-eyed young men in the prime of life and the pink of condition...